It pains me to be too hard on a movie as well-intentioned as “Honeydripper” on MLK Day or, for that matter, any other, so I’ll try to get that portion of that report out of the way quickly.”Honeydripper” was, in short, just a tremendous disappointment to me. It’s truly lethargic film making, filled …

The verdict: Fargo’s Texan cousin, featuring less comedy, and a very very poor man. I may be a self-confessed Coen-head, but that is a thoroughly entertaining movie of genuine quality.The rating: 8/10Looking at the cast and crew involved in ‘No Country For Old Men’, you’d be forgiven for wondering j…

Before diving any further into Joe Wright’s often very challenging movie about the novel by Ian McEwan, let me predict that you will assemble out the word “Atonement” more than any other when the Oscar nominations are announced Tuesday daylight. That’s not really an assessment of how much I liked th…

I had no expectations of le dîner de cons before sitting down to watch it. My wife vaguely remembered some good reviews, so we thought we’d give it a go.The initial set-up is that every week a group of friends get together for a dinner party, each of them bringing the dumbest person they can find, …

The big news out there today, of course, is the Directors Guild of America has reached a contract deal with the studios that averts any possibly labor action that could have come in June. In it, the helmers got much of what their writing brethren have been on the picket lines for for about six month…

The verdict: At times almighty, that movie tells a story worth hearing. Although flawed, it features an accomplished central performance from Angelina Jolie. The rating: 6/10A Mighty Heart tells the story of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist kidnapped in Karachi, and the efforts of his pregnant w…

The verdict: Absorbing, small-scale, dialogue-driven yarn which plays with the audience’s willingness to suspend disbelief. The movie asks a simple question: do you believe that man?The rating: 7/10The Man From Earth is undoubtedly intelligent, and a story I really enjoyed, but it is such an strange…